What's New in Visual FoxPro

This release of Visual FoxPro contains many new features and enhancements. The following sections describe these new features and enhancements.

In This Section

• Guide to Reporting Improvements
  A roadmap to all new Reporting enhancements.

• Data and XML Feature Enhancements
  Describes additions and improvements to Visual FoxPro data features.

• SQL Language Improvements
  Describes enhancements to SQL language such as SELECT - SQL Command.

• Class Enhancements
  Describes additions and improvements to Visual FoxPro classes, forms, controls and object-oriented related features.

• Language Enhancements
  Describes additions and improvements to the Visual FoxPro programming language.

• Interactive Development Environment (IDE) Enhancements
  Describes additions and improvements made to the Visual FoxPro IDE.

• Enhancements to Visual FoxPro Designers
  Describes improvements made to designers available in Visual FoxPro.

• Miscellaneous Enhancements
  Describes other improvements made in this version of Visual FoxPro.

• Changes in Functionality for the Current Release
  Describes changes in the behavior of existing language and functionality.

• Visual FoxPro New Reserved Words
  Lists new reserved words added to Visual FoxPro.

Related Sections

• Getting Started with Visual FoxPro
  Provides information about where to find the ReadMe file and how to install and upgrade from previous versions, configure Visual FoxPro, and customize the development environment.

• Using Visual FoxPro
  Provides an overview of Visual FoxPro features, describes concepts and productivity tools for developing, programming, and managing high-performance database applications and components, and provides walkthroughs that help get you started. With the robust tools and data-centric object-oriented language that Visual FoxPro offers, you can build modern, scalable, multi-tier applications that integrate client/server computing and the Internet.

• Samples and Walkthroughs
  Contains Visual FoxPro code samples and step-by-step walkthroughs that you can use for experimenting with and learning Visual FoxPro features.

• Reference (Visual FoxPro)
  Describes Visual FoxPro general, programming language, user interface, and error message reference topics.

• Product Support (Visual FoxPro)
  Provides information about Microsoft product support services for Visual FoxPro.